[rescue] Bunch of free/cheap stuff to sell/trade/give away [mostly Sun]

[rescue at sunhelp.org]

> In the timeless tradition of the Visa ads...
Actually, it's MasterCard.  I should know...my father won
the "priceless" vacation for 10 people to a private island
that was advertised during the Super Bowl in January 2001.
And yes, it *was* truly awesome.  Mel Gibson and others
had stayed on the island...

> > Sparc 5 memory.
> $9.50/32 Meg DIMM:
Thanks for this, as I was looking for some.  That auction
expired, but the seller has tons--currently there's more at
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2046160972

[...]
> > A decent 24-bit framebuffer for a Sparc 5.  (I have an S24.
> > But Solaris support for it appears to have stopped with
> > Solaris 7, and none of the BSD/Linux distributions that I've
> > checked support it.  And even under Solaris, performance is...
> > well, sluggish.)

> Priceless...
> Well, more precisely, unobtanium ;^)
> Affordable, 24-bit, and fast - pick *one*!

Not strictly true.  I have an MGX+ which (copying the 32-bit
drivers for 2.6 over to later versions) runs 24-bit and reasonably
fast (much faster than S24) under Solaris 7 and 8.  Similar can
be done with the Fujitsu AG10E IIRC.  Unfortunately, you're
"stuck" with Solaris, I haven't tested the MGX+ under 9, and
although they *do* show up they're not exactly plentiful.
Then again, I've seen far more auctions for the MGX+ or AG10E
than I have for the S24.  So what he's looking for isn't
pure unobtainium...it's some sort of alloy.

  --Rip